Question | Answer |
Agenzia/Agente di turismo | tourist agency/agent |
Bagaglio | luggage |
Fare le valige | pack one's bags |
Offerta | special offer |
Passeggero/a | passenger |
Prenotare | to reserve a room, flight, etc. |
Prenotazione | reservation |
Sconto | discount |
Il/la turista; i turisti; le turiste | tourist/tourists |
Ultimo momento | last-minute |
Valigia | suitcase |
Capoluogo | regional capital |
Comune | city or town |
Frazione | part of a comune |
Meridionale | del Sud |
Provincia | province |
Regione | region |
Settentrionale | del Nord |
Andata e ritorno | round trip |
Binari | train tracks |
Controllore | conductor |
Ferrovie | railways |
Il posto a sedere | seat |
Il supplemento | extra supplement for a special train |
La carrozza | car or carriage of a train |
Sala d'attesa | waiting room |
Scompartimento | train compartment |
Atterrare (coniugato con essere) | to land |
Carta d'imbarco | boarding pass |
Decollare (congiugato con essere) | take off |
Imbarcare | board (a plane) |
La dogana | customs |
Scalo | layover, stop |
Volare | to fyl |
Volo | flight |
Andare a piedi | walk/go on foot |
Autobus | urban bus |
Autostop | hitchhike |
Autostrada | highway |
Barca | boat |
Crociera | a cruise |
Guidare | to drive |
Il tass"/taxi | taxi |
L'autocarro/camion | truck |
l'elicottero | helicopter |
La metropolitana | subway |
Nave | ship |
Noleggiare una macchina | to rent a car |
Pullman | bus for long distances, coach |
Traghetto | ferry |
Vaporetoo | Venetian "bus" |
Agriturismo | an inn in the country |
Camera singola/doppia | single/double room |
Doccia/bagno privato | private shower/bath |
Letto matrimoniale | king-sized bed |
Ostello | hostel |
Pensione | small family-run hotel |
Pernottare | to stay overnight |
George McJunkin | the African American cowboy in New Mexico who discovered the Folsom Site in 1908. |
Paleo-Indians | of, relating to, or denoting the earliest human inhabitants of the Americas, from as early as 40,000 years ago to c. 5000 bc. |
Folsom hunters | moved constantly to maintain contact with their pray; successor of the nomadic |
Archaic Indians | hunted bison with Folsom points |
Great Basin peoples | member of any of the indigenous North American peoples inhabiting the traditional culture area comprising almost all of the present-day states of Utah and Nevada, portions of Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, small parts Arizona, Montana, and California. |
Clovis peoples | culture of 11,000 years ago is named for artifacts found nearby. |
California people | hunter and gatherers for hundreds of years after AD 1492; diversity among the people; 500 separate tribes speaking 90 languages with local dialects |
Chumash | a member of an American Indian people inhabiting coastal parts of southern California. |
Northwest peoples | built more or less permanent villages; concentrated on catching whales and large quantities of salmon, halibut, and other fish; traded with people living miles from the coast; developed woodworking skills- wood carvings that denoted wealth and status |
Woodland peoples | deer is their most important prey; deer gave hides and bones for clothes, weapons, needless, and tools; gathered edible plants, seeds, nuts, hickory nuts, pecans, walnuts and acorns |